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Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/89485 Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age Kriel, Lize Schwarz, Anja sikhosiyotula@yahoo.com Siyotula, Sikho UCTD Visual Culture Studies Iron age settlement Digital age Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2022. VISUALISING SOUTHERN AFRICAN LATE IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE studies the visualisation of Southern African Late Iron Age Settlements (LIAS) (c. 900–1800) across the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries (1871–2020), as found in a survey of the cultural production, circulation, reproduction, and theorisation of illustrations accompanying archaeological, anthropological, and historical Southern African LIAS research. A valuable contribution of LIAS research is its continuous demonstration of a pre-colonial hub of cosmopolitanisms on a scale never imagined in colonial histories of 'indigenous' communities – thought of as the ultimate 'other' of global modernity. This study focuses on the visualisation of four settlements, namely: Mapungubwe, Khami, Great Zimbabwe, and Bokoni. It is proposed that as with the authority of Eurocentric 'formative interpretations' of LIAS research currently under review, visualisations accompanying LIAS also need to be critically relooked at within appropriate visual cultural methodologies informed by postcolonial, decolonial and critical race theory. The study follows a two-fold methodological framework involving a textual analysis and an image-making process. On both accounts, the study focuses on the cultural politics of representation, asking: who and what is being made visible in the visualisation of settlements accompanying LIAS research; what forms of materiality and spatiality are pictured and performed; what is the affect such visualisations have on the people that experience them; and finally, what do they mean in the context in which they are made National Institute for the Humanities and the Social Sciences Oppenheimer Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Visual Arts PhD Unrestricted 2023-02-14T10:24:20Z 2023-02-14T10:24:20Z 2023-04 2022 Thesis Siyotula, S 2022, Visualising Southern African Late Iron Age Settlements in the Digital Age, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, viewed yymmdd https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89485 A2023 https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89485 en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Visual Culture Studies Iron age settlement Digital age Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age |
| title | Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age |
| title_full | Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age |
| title_fullStr | Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age |
| title_short | Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age |
| title_sort | visualising southern african late iron age settlements in the digital age |
| topic | UCTD Visual Culture Studies Iron age settlement Digital age |
| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89485 |